Scooby/Max Laevastu #1 TB Mover

By: Kara Bonilla

Max, aka “Scooby”

How do you make your way to the top spot in the Trackable world? According to the top Trackable mover in the world, “It takes a lot of hard work, perseverance and a Zen-like stage of being at one with any Trackable.”

Max Laevastu, widely known as Scooby (of Shaggy, Scooby, and Velma), is now the number one mover of Trackables in the world. Amazingly, he has moved over 25,000 Trackables: Travel Bugs ®, Geocoins, and promotional tags, over the past six years. Max got an early start with his passion after a classmate in first grade introduced him to geocaching, and after their first geocaching outing, Max and his family were immediately hooked on the game.

Scooby’s recent Trackable stats

A couple of years later at the age of eight, Max became fascinated by moving Trackables. Since then his passion has grown into an accomplishment that is respected and admired by geocachers all over the world.

Now, 14-year-old Max, with the full support of his family and friends, has accomplished his long time of goal becoming the top Trackable mover in the world. Max is known to the geocaching community as “the Trackable kid.” This is an incredible milestone for anyone, let alone a young teenager.

On a daily basis, Max will check Geocaching.com for heavily populated Trackable areas, and makes it a point to cache there with his family as soon as possible. The family’s longest streak was 75 days of geocaching, but according to Max, “If I had my way we would cache every day of the year.”

Scooby Event Cache

Max and his family credit the geocaching community with much of the support needed to help Max reach his goal. Back in January, the community held an event, “Scooby-Doobey-Doo We Got Some Work to Do Now!!!(GC37F8K).” On the morning of the event, Max was 600 Trackables behind the number one spot. Geocacher, Dave Coleman (a.k.a. Celtic Dave) created the event with one goal in mind, to bring Trackables to Max to help him achieve his goal. The name of the event was inspired by the famous Scooby Doo cartoon theme song, that goes with Max and his parent’s geocaching name perfectly.

Shaggy, Scooby and Velma

The event had nearly 90 “attended” logs and roughly 800-1000 Travel Bugs were dropped. Scooby definitely got some work done, and this event accomplished his goal, moving him into the number one spot by just 25 Trackables. Dave, who has been friends with Shaggy, Scooby, and Velma for about six years now was very thrilled with his event’s turnout and the ability to help Scooby with his Trackable accomplishments; “Scooby has a determination when it comes to Trackables that is unmatched.”

Max’s parents are gracious and appreciative of the support of the geocaching community. They’re very proud of their son’s accomplishments. They write, “When Scooby sets a goal, nothing will stop him. He is one determined little boy. We love his enthusiasm and zest for geocaching.” They realize that without community support Max might not have made it to where he is today.

Max’s next goal is to maintain his #1 Trackable mover status by reaching a total of 50,000 Trackables moved. He says, “Back when I was so close to #1, I knew I could do it, and I wasn’t going to stop until I achieved my goal.” Max plans to keep up this enthusiasm for Trackable moving so he can get to 50,000 quickly. Cheers to Max for reaching his goal. It will be fun to support him in reaching his next milestone. Go Scooby! You got some MORE work to do now…

Not to be a party pooper, but I’d think you’d have to find your own trackables to be #1. 800-1000 trackables were brought to him. Should this count towards his total? I would think not. He’s done great, but why would he even want that? Not understanding.

Horsin’ Round

A lot of people swap trackables at meets, etc. For instance, I have an overseas friend and we send each other ones we’ve found so the Tb can get some miles, or perhaps reach its goal. I don’t see an issue.

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